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[geezerwench]

 Hi Hanover!! Your friendly town Witch here following a message from the Hanover Borough Police Chief to clarify something about our business practices.

All Tarot services are for entertainment purposes only! We have this posted at 3 locations around the Shoppe as well as on every single one of our online listings that one must read prior to booking your experience via our website. (Y se habla español si necesitas un traducción! 🇵🇷)

While I personally didn’t have “police activity surrounding my place of business on suspicions of witchcraft” on my 2023 bingo card, I suppose no one expects the (Hanover) Inquisition!

Not interested in 15th Century Playing Cards as a mode of entertainment? No worries! We have a trove of treasures from artisans galore in store, and a welcoming community to those who wish to grow together.

The Serpent’s Key Shoppe and Sanctuary is and always will be a safe space for those who seek to walk an alternative spiritual path.  We hope to continue to love our neighbors as ourselves while we welcome in Spooky Season and all of the upcoming winter holidays 🖤🐍🗝️✨

(Ps. Huge shout outs to the Mainstreet Hanover team for being the sweetest during all of this and all of the local business owners who came by today to show their support 🖤🖤 pls go support them and all of the events they work so hard to organize!) 

[the-spirit-of-yore]

Achille blessé au talon par la flèche de Pâris, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1850, copie d'un original du Musée des Beaux Arts de Valenciennes, Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

[temple-of-mars]

Buschgroßmutter, Shrub Grandmother, known throughout Pennsylvania Dutch and Germanic Magic.

This crystal pendulum talisman will undergo a strong ritual of consecration to the Buschgroßmutter, dedicating it to her and making it a powerful sacred object that establishes a connection to her. Buschgroßmutter is a powerful tree entity, akin to a forest Goddess, that is called upon for guidance, especially by Hexerei Practitioners. She was known throughout Germany, Austria, and later in America to some of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Known as Shrub Grandmother, she is appears as a wise older, mossy matriarch tree entity with long white hair and a magic staff. She is helpful to those who are kind and generous. She is often sympathetic of those who experience hardships in life, especially poverty, and offers support in trying situations. She is quite malevolent toward those who are malicious and problematic without reason. She is a stern, tough, no nonsense woman who is very knowledgeable. She is representative of strength, wisdom, independence, perseverance, and vengeance. She helps to provide wisdom and spiritual knowledge to you. She can be called upon for strong spiritual protection, combatting malicious people, magic, spirits, and entities. She would be considered darker arts to black arts and enjoys exacting revenge on people to obtain justice. She is quite ruthless and aggressive when it comes to vengeance magic. Please note, as stated, she is no nonsense! She WON'T tolerate any form of disrespect and may lash out at those who deliberately insult her. She doesn't cater to every whim; she gives guidance, wisdom, and assistance, but she expects effort on your part, as part of her lessons are about encouraging people to establish independence, personal power, and self-reliance. She enjoys nature, trees, plants and animals, they're all sacred to her and she protects them from spiritual attacks. This talisman acts as a strong energy conduit tuned to her power. This consecrated talisman is great for increasing personal power, gaining wisdom and insight, and increasing assertiveness. It is an excellent piece used to break free from spiritual constraints, develop independence, success, as well as hone your skills in vengeance magic. Additionally, it gives occult knowledge, usually via dreams or intuition.She often appears via dreams to inform you about important events, to give occult knowledge, teach you her magic, or to give messages. OFFERINGS: She appreciates thoughtful offerings, moss agate and tree agates are a favorite of hers. Pine needles, juniper berries, and thoughtful forest related gifts. Candles that are dressed with herbs such as mugwort. Honey bread or cakes. You may even plant a tree and dedicate it to her, or give her a figurine. She especially enjoys art and hand crafted items. Pendulum is great for divinatory purposes and receiving answers from her. It acts as a conduit to her for prayer requests. It can be utilized in ritual work for additional strength. Place near your pillow to receive dreams.

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[caffeine-and-sunshine]

Our patient is (thankfully) sleeping so we’re spending some time with Dad this morning and meditating on His form of Khonsu pa-Khered, or Khonsu the Child.

Strangely there’s not a whole lot of information about this aspect of Dad. We know He is considered a form of Ra, the Divine Child of Amun and Mut. We know He wears the sidelock of youth. That’s it! So if anyone has any good reads and sources about him, we’d love if you could send them along!

We get Khonsu pa-Khered in a nice smush with Ihy, whom we worked with awhile back after He approached us before we knew Dad. I enjoy the implied association with music in reference to Khonsu.

Image from the Brooklyn Museum

[youdonthavetocallmedarlinnn]

Old charms that have been refurbished 😌

[thechaoticgingers]

took some time with friends ( and Bellatrix, our 14yo cat) to relax and recharge for the new year.

The show lineup is shaping up for 2025, can’t wait to see yall around Pennsylvania (and maybe some surrounding states 👀)

[tet-asw]

Open Litha (and TET's Thirteenth Birthday) Tickets, Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite

Source: Open Litha (and TET’s Thirteenth Birthday) Tickets, Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite

https://tet-asw.org/2024/06/05/open-litha-and-tets-thirteenth-birthday-tickets-sat-jun-15-2024-at-100-pm-eventbrite/

[astra-ravana]

The Power Of Ley Lines

Ley lines are straight lines or tracks, essentially energy grids that stretch across the earth in every direction. The ancients marked these lines with stone monuments and pagan temples. Our ancient ancestors could feel the magick and power emanating from these lines, so they set up natural sanctuaries and called the intersections of the ley lines sacred places.

If we look at some of the world's most important sites on a map, we can draw straight lines between them. These lines form a grid-like pattern across the entire surface of the planet. Stonehenge, the Great Pyramids of Giza, and Machu Pichu are sacred sites the connect, through the lines, with many other sites, including landmarks like Mt. Everest.

You won't find the ley lines on a typical geographical map or in a history book. They are mostly a topic in occult books or folklore. The contemporary concept was developed by Alfred Watkins in 1921, who believed so strongly in ley lines that he organized a group, that gathered in England and walked the countryside in search of them.

Faerie Paths and Corpse Roads

Spirits often travel the earth along ley lines. In England and throughout Europe there is a concept referred to as a 'corpse road'. A corpse road was a path taken by funerary processions to escort the recently deceased to their final resting place. Terrifying stories are told of supernatural creatures on corpse trails that, more often than not, correspond with ley lines.

Faeries, also known as the Fae, the Fair Folk, or the Sidhe, are known to travel along specified paths as well. There are many stories from Ireland and the British Isles that describe Faerie pathways leading into hills or over Fae bridges. These paths also follow ley lines. People are warned not to ever travel a Fae path during twilight hours (dawn or dusk) or at night, for fear the Faeries would steal them away.

The Importance of Ley Lines Today

Though the concept has ancient roots, ley lines are just as relevant in modern practice and very much affect us. The planet is like a living being, in and of itself. It produces energetic vibrations that we can both feel and interact with, if the conditions are right. The ley lines are like earth's veins; sacred sites where the planet allows us to easily tap into her essence.

Of you feel particularly revitalized after visiting your secret hiking spot, swimming in a body of water, or digging your toes into a patch of dirt or moss, then you know a taste of the potency that comes with being near a ley line.

The Affects of Ley Lines

• If your home is on a ley line, it may make thr energy more intense or chaotic.

• You may not be able to relax and sleeping may be difficult.

• You may experience increased paranormal activity, including apparitions, disembodied voices, and encounters with spirits, Faeries, or elementals.

• If your business is on a ley line, you will most likely notice an increase in energy, positive or negative. Your business may be considered haunted.

• When ley lines intersect, any building located on the intersection will have a constant flow of energy. This will cause supernatural occurrences and regular chaos.

• At ancient/sacred sites on ley lines, you will experience spiritual development, enlightenment, awakenings, visions, feelings of peace, messages from beyond or spiritual downloads.

Discovering Nearby Ley Lines

Finding your local ley lines is easier than one wound expect. Think of any historical landmarks in your area. Native, ancient, and pagan landmarks are excellent starting points, as are caves, rivers/creeks, manmade mounds, burial grounds, etc. The ancient natives were very in tune with nature and knew the lines intimately.

In addition, consider local sites with well-known hauntings, supernatural activity, or legends attached to them. Locations with high paranormal activity are most often on or near a ley line. For example, Gettysburg PA, Washington DC, and further, every state capital are located on ley lines.

Locating a Ley Line

After investigating your local sites and finding possible line spots, it's time to make the journey to confirm it in person. This is a sacred journey and you should prepare as such. Cleanse yourself before traveling to any sacred place so you can be as spiritually pure as possible. This will make the energy from the lines easier to sense. It's also a wise idea to bring along a pendulum or dowsing rods. Once there, be open to any sensation. You may feel nervous or excited.

You can dowse and find which areas have the highest energetic charge, test each place with the pendulum/rods, if they spin or swing vigorously, you are very close to the ley line.

Ley Line Magick

In addition to being excellent places for spirit work and necromancy, the energy of the lines can be harnessed to super charge manifestation. Enlightenment is primary. It should go without saying that visiting a ley line give you divine insight, spiritual downloads, and/or a total spiritual awakening.

Healing is another prominent form of magick performed at ley lines. While there, ask the earth and the spirits to send healing vibrations up through your feet and throughout your entire being. Stand still for a while and feel the healing energy pulse through your body. Few sensations match this potent connection.

Other forms of ley line magick include drawing love, abundance, meditation, grounding, cleansing, and charging. You can perform entire rituals on top of ley lines to add primal power to the working and drastically increase the success rate of your spell.

Ley Lines in the US

• Montana Megaliths, MT

• Pryor Mountains, MT

• Bighorn Medicine Wheel, NY

• Sedona, AZ

• Serpent Mound, OH

• Mount Shasta, CA

• Mount Denali, AK

• Tocobaga Indian Mound, FL

• Uinta Basin, UT

• Chicago, IL (Lake Michigan)

• Yellowstone National Park, WI

• Pine Barrens, NJ

[ladyiristheenchantress]

Morals and Ethics

Hello Friends!! to preface: This post is not here to police anyone on what is the 'correct' way to practice. My aim on this post is to be culturally and magically informed, so this isnt going to be a take down of any belief or path line. Instead this post is offered up as a way to not only build your own moral frame work, but get you thinking about where you stand magically and enhance how you practice! Our moral frameworks are all unique, something that would be a faux pas in your practice might be something thats culturally common in others, so lets throw on our thinking caps and get started!

What is building an ethical and moral framework?

Building an ethical background in witchcraft involves establishing a set of principles, values, and guidelines that guide your magical and spiritual practices! In essence It helps ensure that your actions align with your moral compass (Wherever it may lie). This background can help you make informed decisions, cultivate energy, and maintain a respectful and balanced relationship with both you and your magic.

Some religions and paths have their own moral and ethical framework, for example lyma is this idea of "something to be washed away" and is a big deal when practicing within Hellenic Spaces! It would be immoral to approach an altar without washing your hands if they were dirty, but on the flip side some cultures actively encourage dirty hands like people who worship earth within their gardens. Depending on your path you might have a specific framework.

Another aspect is moral frameworks change and that is ok!! Its important we aren't stagnate and its ok to change your mind and feel like you want to change things up. That is totally reasonable and people do it all the time like with politics, religious affiliations, jobs, and more! Ethical and Moral compasses can change just like we do.

How to build an ethical framework

Self-Reflection: Start by exploring your own values, beliefs, and moral code. Reflect on what is important to you, what you stand for, and how these values relate to your magical practices. Also now would be the time to decolonize your beliefs and explore your biases. Its ok to acknowledge your bias, as long as you are working through it. If you dont know what decolonizing your beliefs is I left a helpful video above, just click 'decolonize your beliefs'

Research and Study: Deep dive into different ethical systems and philosophies. Familiarize yourself with various witchcraft traditions, such as New age spirituality, Pagan magical systems, and country/area specific + their associated ethical guidelines. Read books and articles about ethics in witchcraft whether you agree or disagree. During this time you are simply collecting as many perspectives as possible and comparing them to how you feel, don't feel pressured to follow something if you don't feel it applies to you.

Connect with a Mentor or Community: If possible, seek guidance from an experienced witch or spiritual space who can share their ethical insights and offer advice on building your own ethical framework. The best part is, different spaces will produce their own ethical codes of conduct. For example some spaces don't allow love spell discussion for example, which is an ethical guideline.

Create Your Own Code: Based on your self-reflection, research, and guidance, create your own personal code of ethics. This code should reflect your values and guide your magical practices. It might include principles like harm none, respect nature, work for the greater good, or take no shit. Wherever you feel you sit, walk with it. Whatever comes natural to you explore it. Write down what you believe as a symbol, but do so in pencil so you can change it as needed!

Regularly Reevaluate: As you gain experience and your understanding of ethics evolves, revisit and update your ethical code. It's important to grow as your spiritual journey progresses like I mentioned above. You are not a static person, allow yourself to experience your moral compass and how to bends. Allow yourself to be fluid and honest. Not everyone is 'love and light' or 'fuck authority' your allowed to be who you need to be!

Different Types of Ethics in Witchcraft:

Note: This is not every type of ethics, but rather a couple examples of the ethics you may see in your research and which group it belongs too. This area is not meant to endorse or critique an ethical guideline but instead showcase the many that do exist.

The Wiccan Rede: "An it harm none, do what ye will." This is a central ethical guideline in Wicca, emphasizing the avoidance of harm to others as a core principle. Another one is The Threefold Law, this law suggests that the energy you send out, whether positive or negative, will return to you threefold (three times what you sent out). This encourages practitioners to be mindful of their actions.

Green Witch Ethics: Green witches emphasize their connection to nature and the importance of nurturing and protecting the environment. Their ethical background often centers around conservation, sustainability, and working with the Earth's energies respectfully.

Personal Responsibility: Some witches adhere to a more individualistic code of ethics, focusing on personal responsibility and accountability for their actions.

Balancing Left hand and Right hand: For some, ethical considerations involve finding a balance between Right and Left hand magic, and acknowledging the potential consequences of working with both, one, or neither. The right and left hand path are types of magical systems that involve different attitudes towards magic, the right hand emphasizing healing and selflessness, and the left hand emphasizing individuality and shadow aspects.

Respect for Spirits and Deities: Many witches emphasize the importance of showing respect and gratitude to the spirits, deities, and entities they work with, recognizing their agency and autonomy.

Are there any absolutes that I should be aware of?

Absolutes are ethical things that you do need to make sure you are integrating! These are really important things to note when you are learning, because if you do choose to disregard these you could contribute to some really bad concepts that intrinsically cause harm to real people

Respect - Cultural awareness, avoiding appropriation, and looking out for other people can be important. Its important that you fully evaluate a moral system before indulging in it. For example: In the love spell discussion and lot of cultural practioners voices are left out of the discussion, same with baneful discussions. Its important to listen to many groups of people and take stances that dont turn peoples cultures into a monolith, demonize them, or silence them.

Hate groups and cults - Its important that you check where a belief comes from and see if it matches with any hate groups or cult rhetoric. These groups create really flashy and easy to digest claims to try and push an agenda kind of like a salesmen. Their whole job is to try and push you into their group so they can get money, power, fame, and in some cases carry out atrocities. This corresponds with that decolonization conversation from earlier, because it can help keep you and other witchy friends safe!

Nuance - Its important to keep nuance in the conversation. Don't take extremely black and white stances if you aren't knowledgeable on the subject. I think even advanced practioners need to remember to keep nuance in their opinions and keep an open mind when presented with new information or moral ideals. Keep an open dialogue when you are having conversations, and remember to keep asking yourself why you believe the things you do.

Remember that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to building an ethical background in witchcraft. Your ethical code should be a reflection of your personal beliefs and values. It's essential to be true to yourself and to strive for a harmonious practice that aligns with your own spiritual journey! Enjoy the ride :)

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[the-spirit-of-yore]

Colonne de la défense (détail), Valenciennes, France

[sophieinwonderland]

More from the doc: Every Tibetan Buddhist is a monk now!

Before getting to the most ridiculous part of this... While a minority of the endogenic community is trying to change the language, this community is largely separate from the tulpamancy community who actually use the language. The push to change language from systems who largely aren't tulpamancers and aren't part of the tulpamancy community would really accomplish little more than sew division between these distinct groups of plurals who should be united.

Thoughtform is a bad term for a mostly psychological practice because it has a long history in spiritual and pagan communities. (Source: My host was in a Wiccan community that made thoughtforms as a teen) It's not something new coined as a replacement. It's using a common term for a different phenomenon in a way that will create confusion.

"Willogenic" is a bad term, IMO, because it implies the headmates are simply "willed" into existence, diminishing the level of practice it takes many tulpamancers to create headmates. The tulpamancy community aren't going to go for that either.

Both of these are bad alternatives.

And I do consider it to be falling for anti-endo propaganda, because while there have been a few Tibetan Buddhists to express discomfort with the term, they've all been ones exposed to syscourse and anti-endo talking points. When the question was posed to Buddhist subreddits, most didn't have an issue with tulpamancers using the term.

There are also no debates about the tulpa being used in horror media or in Genshin Impacts "Hydro Tulpa" boss, showing this topic is exclusively confined to syscourse.

If the main variable for whether a Tibetan Buddhist finds it offensive is whether or not they've been exposed to anti-endo talking points or not before hand, I think that's something that should be taken into consideration.

Remember, you are not immune to propaganda.

Now, to the big thing though...

Do you think all Tibetan Buddhists are monks????????

Is "monk" to you just a word that applies to anyone practicing Buddhism???

Because as far as I know, exactly ZERO of the anti-tulpa people are Buddhist monks.

To be fair, none of the pro-tulpa ones are either. I don't think any actual monks/lamas have commented on this specific issue.

Now, I have pointed to the Dalai Lama, who is the highest monk in Tibetan Buddhism, saying the West and other religions could take Tibetan Buddhist meditations.

While broad, I think this can be extrapolated to apply to the practices tulpamancy drew inspiration from as well, establishing that Tibetan Buddhist meditations are open practices by default unless stated otherwise.

As of yet, I haven't found any evidence of a Lama or other spiritual leaders of Tibetan Buddhism establishing the sprul pa practice as some sort of closed exception.

But this paragraph from the doc highlights for me why I have a hard time taking the anti-tulpa side seriously. If you're going to white knight for a religion, you have GOT to learn the most basic facts about it.

Like, you know, how not everyone who practices the religion is a monk.

[temple-of-mars]

What is Hexerei?

♦️⭐🔷 There's a lot of incorrect rumors, superstition, and all around unnecessary fear-mongering concerning Hexerei, a Pennsylvania Dutch and Germanic form of witchcraft. I myself, and my family are Pennsylvania Dutch. We grew up with the culture, the community, the beliefs, the spirits, and the magic. There is a lot of superstition both inside and outside of the PA Dutch community about witches and their practices.

For many years, rumors swirled around about witches sickening animals, ritually sacrificing animals, witches hurling deadly curses at everyone in their path, and other ridiculous notions. Bad things happened in these earlier times, especially before the age of technology, medicine, and scientific advancements. Rather than trying to understand it, and lacking adequate information, people of course looked for a scapegoat to blame. Almost everything was assumed to be witchcraft rather than unfortunate events and lack of available knowledge and technology to help. Scapegoats were usually older, single or widowed women and sometimes men who were more introverted and kept to themselves.

The men and women who practiced Hexerei were generally quiet about their practices years ago. They carried with them the powerful, older Heideglaawe (heathen beliefs) and spiritual beliefs when they immigrated to Pennsylvania and other areas of the United States. They were referred to as heathens. Most didn't target animals for harm. Most didn't curse people unless they needed to and had no other options. They were simply families of remaining pagans and non-religious spiritualists who kept their beliefs a secret to reduce the risk of community mobbing and retaliation. Hexerei Practitioners ranged from White Arts, to Grey arts, to Dark Arts, and rarely, Black arts, though it was wrongly assumed that Hexerei is a strictly Black arts type of Magic. This was due to others occasionally finding the sixth and seventh books of Moses in deceased relatives' belongings (The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses have NOTHING to do with true Hexerei! This is another common misconception, this is different type of magic)

♦️⭐🔷 WHAT IS HEXEREI? ♦️⭐🔷

♦️⭐🔷 Pennsylvania Dutch Hexerei is a form of old, powerful rural witchcraft that encompasses working with both light and dark magic, utilizing your own energy, as well as natural energy sources. Hexes (German and Pennsylvania Dutch witches) work with nature, weather, planets, sun, moon, stars, herbs, roots, stones, oils, powders, magic staffs, trees, written words, spoken words, painted symbols, hex signs, barn stars, wooden effigies, metals, hex bags, coins, and farm tools. Dream and astral work, a practice to be mastered known as Draamerei (Dreamcraft, or continued practice of dreaming and astral projecting), is important to them. Hexes frequently work with various spirits, such as elemental spirits, house spirits, and field spirits, with tree spirits often coming forward as helpful guides. Star People were occasionally mentioned in old stories and beliefs, sometimes being tied to certain, rare hex signs featuring specific stars, colors, and patterns, and were thought to bring messages. Hexes have their own belief system (Hexeglaawe) and unique practices. Hexes believe in taking care of and working with nature, plants, trees, spirits, and animals, treating them with respect. Independence, awareness, effort, cunning, strength of character are encouraged. This is mainly due to living in isolation on vast areas of farm land near remote wilderness, they're in tune with nature. Historically, magic, spirits, and entities were all around Pennsylvania and Germany. We had written words and letters that were rich in magical knowledge and wisdom, we had interesting supernatural stories and legends, and we were surrounded by many, many different types of spirits everywhere, as they were part of daily life!♦️⭐🔷

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BRAUCHEREI PRACTITIONERS, HEXENMEISTERS, AND HEXEREI PRACTITIONERS?

Braucherei practitioners were Christians who practiced a type of Christian witchcraft utilizing verses from the Bible, as well as their own spells, usually for spiritual aura healing and cleansing. They were White magic practitioners who genuinely tried to help people and the community.

Hexenmeisters were Christians who practiced Christian witchcraft utilizing verses from the Bible, as well as their own spells and methods. Some were White magic practitioners, though they were generally Grey magic practitioners, and sometimes even Dark Magic practitioners. They utilized dark magic to fight against those who've they suspected of sending bad luck, illnesses, droughts, curses, etc. The State of Pennsylvania once used to issue Hexenmeister licences decades ago to those who practiced and wanted a more formal certificate to verify their abilities. Many genuinely helped people with a variety of issues, though there were some Hexenmeisters who had used their magic to commit spiritual wrongdoing.

Heide: The Heide is a Pennsylvania Dutch and German term for Heathens, also known as pagans. Heideglaawe translates to Heathen beliefs. There were many Heathens who practiced their religion in Pennsylvania, and some areas were even named after them as they were known to gather in these sacred places.

Hexerei Practitioners: Germanic Pagans and non-religious spiritualists who practiced a unique form of witchcraft utilizing old Germanic Pagan charms and spells from old spiritual writings and spoken traditions, as well as other nature-based spells and traditions they've created. Hexes (Germanic and Pennsylvania Dutch Witches) ranged from White magic and Grey magic practitioners (most common), to Dark magic, and on occasion, Black magic practitioners. Dark and Black magic were used to obtain spiritual justice and spiritual vengeance when other options didn't work or simply weren't available. Many Hexes were genuinely interested in helping people, as well as honoring spirits, animals, and the land. They were often the target for misunderstanding since pagan religions were especially vilified during this time, often due to lack of information.

Supernatural beliefs were common and well-accepted, especially in Pennsylvania, until stories of "witch hysteria" spread throughout the country's newspapers, which attached a negative stigma to Brauchers, Hexenmeisters, Heathens, and Hexerei Practitioners. Because of this, many beliefs and practices were kept top secret for fear of career ruin, harassment, threats, and social ostracization. Hexenmeister licenses were revoked, beliefs were mocked, and there were many attempts by the government at the time to eliminate occult practices altogether. Some family traditions and beliefs were lost, and the use of Pennsylvania Dutch language dwindled, as grandparents and parents decided against teaching children and apprentices for worry of systemic retaliation. Today, many of our beliefs, traditions, culture, writings are being rediscovered by those same descendants, as new interest and curiosity in those same practices emerges once again.

Be sure to follow our blog and our shops. We currently don't teach Hexerei or any other magic due to our schedule, however, if you have interest in Pennsylvania Dutch and German traditions, beliefs, and information, you may read our product listings and our blog. We have many products that relate to Pennsylvania Dutch and Germanic Hexerei. Our listings are informative and many include historical information. We don't pressure anyone to purchase anything that they don't want or need. Thank you for reading, and many blessings! ♦️⭐🔷

[papirouge]

I gave up on being pro life publicly and online. The genocide in the Congo and in Gaza have proved it to me that many western women who run those pro life accounts don’t care for children. Many babies have been lost due to hospital bombings. More children are displaced with no families.

I’ve tried reaching out when they talk about saving children in generic posts because very real babies are losing their lives by IDF terrorism. And I get blocked or I get told “that’s different/ they’re Muslim/they should have left already/I don’t care” over and over and over again. The countless videos are already out that have children begging and crying for their families they lost or the homes that can’t be saved. Some of the worst messages I read criticized and blame the Palestinian men too that they should be protecting the kids, so when they die, it’s actually Palestinians fault. Not the IDF. Meanwhile those “young men” are just teenagers because their parents are dead. The Congolese topic is worst. Many are begging people to stop buying the iPhone 15 to raise awareness over the issues there but I got told by one girl who likes to call herself an anti woke submissive wife that she couldn’t care less about the Congo, she’s going to do whatever her husband wants, if that means ignoring genocide then that’s what she will do too. It’s her god given to have freedom over dead bodies l…

I’m fed up. I’m sick of the hypocrisy. I’m sick of seeing stupid homestead content of how they’re at peace taking care of a home as they purposefully condone genocide. If some hacker group exposed all these “submissive Godly trad wife” accounts as being agents for Israel to distract the west from IDF war crimes, I wouldn’t be surprised the least. Their apathy is demonic

@not-your-average-prolifer is the only pro life blog who passed the vibe check as far as I know. She reblogged posts about the emergency of pregnant women in Palestine and also post about mental health of middle east women. I think she is left leaning (correct me if I'm wrong!) so I'm not surprised to see her with more empathy about whatever's happening to women abroad, unlike Conservatives who are extremely stupid & uneducated when it comes to foreign affairs, if not straight up xenophobic.

I hope for every single Christian I know to never open their mouth about uwu Christianism is from Middle east uwu ever again the next time someone calls Christianism white man's religion or I'll go berserk on them. They better shut up forever. They had no problem to keep their mouth shut witnessing the martyrdom of our brothers - they better keep it that way permanently and stop summoning their struggle once it's convenient to them. YES, they proved they definitely consider Christianism a white man thing, considering our little care they have for our (non white) Christian brothers overseas. They better keep them out of their mouth permanently.

"They're Muslim" it's been well documented that there are Christians in Palestine. But even if they weren't, Christ wants everyone to be saved and accept him as their lord and savior - refusing to extend some basic empathy to people being bombed and killed in their sin is not the way to go. Never forget that Jesus didn't heal or saved only Jews, but also pagans, prostitutes, etc. It's insane how so unemphatic "Christians" have become.

Christian Palestinians are actually some of the oldest Christians - like, where do they those idiots think Jerusalem was?? where did the Pentecost happen? IN MIAMI?? KANSAS?? "They should have left" WHERE?? aren't the ppl pulling out this argument the same crybabies whining about woke culture destroying western civilization? Why didn't they leave the western zone already??? Also aren't they the same against immigration and how men fleeing their country are lazy cowards? so why are they mad at Palestinians sticking to their land?? Damn, Western politicians/diplomacy have the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible and mass import Palestinians in western countries to abide Zionists requirements in Israel 💀

And LOL oh so now Palestinian men are supposed to protect children? what are they supposed to do when the IDF is bombing their house? Take weapons to defend/get back their land and shit? Oh my bad, that makes them terrorists (and let's be clear : what happened on October 7th is unjustifiable but let's not act like the Hamas wasn't called terrorist much earlier than that). It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't. If they do nothing, they're cowards, and if they do, they are terrorists - because in this case, resistance is defiance. Ultimately they just want to deflect from their own lack on empathy and find a rational explanation to that.

Conservative scrotes are the LAST people who should lecture anyone about defending the children when there are acting bullying kids young enough to be their grandchildren calling them wokes, leftists, or whatever. I won't even start about gun violence and how deflective they are about protecting the children only to protect their precious right to carry. Ghouls. They only care abt unborn babies because they are unable to call them out on their bs yet. Once they do, they'll cuss them, call them woke, and all sort of -ists.

On TikTok there was a Christian girl saying how Christians are "too emotional" and how we should keep supporting "God chosen people" (Israel). I already made a post calling out how this "god chosen people " narrative didn't stand now that we were in the NEW COVENANT. But let's follow her train of thought: isn't humankind made from God image? Where do emotions come from? Didn't God himself have emotion? Why? What's the right or wrong place to have emotion? She and all the clown who agreed with her would never be able to reply those questions. We've all seen the videos. I did what I could to avoid them but they're quite unavoidable at this point. What's the correct emotion after seeing 2 kids younger than 10 carrying a third one crying while one of his foot was hanging with only one tendon?? This girl, along with every single Christian unmoved by this disaster has to shut up. Their heart is a stone and they should stop trying to lecture people who still have a heart made of flesh. We're not the same. Christ is PEACE. Not war or violence.

And girl, you really shouldn't even engage with women labelling themselves "anti woke submissive wife" 💀 why would you expect them to care about anything but their idol (husband)? Stay focus on what really matters. Peace and God. We're in the end times and God is slowly but surely unfolding the truth. The masks are slipping. Take note of all the so called who remained silent witnessing satan action, take proper action, and go on.

[gawrkin]

(From a portugese translation of Segurant, Knight of the Dragon)

My own English translation of this segment:

Segurant entered an inn and asked the owner the reason for such extraordinary celebration and joy. “Sir” replied the owner “it is for the coronation of the king of this city” And while they were talking, a large group of knights arrived, so well-armed from head to foot that they lacked nothing. “My God”, Segurant asked the owner, “What is happening and where are all these armed knights going?” “Sir” the owner replied “They are going to a nearby pass, called Pas Bertelais, to protect the region against the pagans who usually come to harm us. Know that half of the population of Carmelide are still pagans and they did so much harm in the region that they killed almost all the children.”

I AM IN SHAMBLES WITH THIS LORE DUMP

[secular-jew]

From my friend Hilde Vertlieb, Philadelphia PA, USA.

Now for a little lesson in actual History

In 622 Ad Mohammed was forced to flee Mecca. He and his band of followers were forced out by the Egyptian Polytheist, who did not recognize Mohammed (who was illiterate), his religion, or his fake prophet status. (By the way, while Egypt did hold Jews as slaves, Egypt did recognize Judaism).

Muhammad landed in Medina. And studied Judaism. At this time he incorporated certain parts of Talmudic Law into his newly invented religion, in the hopes of converting Jews to Islam. But the Jewish tribes of Medina, of which there were three, never accepted him as a prophet, and his Islamic Cult was seen as a religion.

So after 2 year in Medina unable to convert the Jews he declared war on the weakest tribe. Starting with the Murder of Ka'b lbn al-Aschraf.

It was said that in 624 AD, Ka'b In al-Aschraf had gone to Mecca to discover why Mohammed was expelled. And Mohammed had him Beheaded. Al-Ashraf was Chief of the Banu Oaynuqa tribe. Keep in mind Judaism was one of the original Tribal cultures, and Medina was roughly 50% jewish, 25% Christian, and 25% pagan. But he was most threatened by the (then very peaceful) Jews and so began the practice of ethnic cleansing. Muhammad ordered all the Jews killed. But his ally Abdullah In Ubayy intervened. And the Banu Oaynuqa tribe was initially spared and exiled to Edri (now Jordan).

In 625, Muhammad attacked the Banu Nadir tribe. They were date farmers. But again Abdullah In Ubayy intervened. As Muslims were not farmers. They were exiled to Khaybar. But forced to practice their religion in secret. As Mohammed permitted no religion but Islam to exist on the Arabian Peninsula. They were kept as Dhimmis and forced to pay exorbitant taxes ( tribute) to Mohammed and Islam.

Back in Medina, only one of the three Jewish tribes remained, and they were the wine makers. And in 627, after the death of Abdullah Ibn Ubbay, he laid siege to the last tribe. This tribe was absolutely destroyed, driven by Mohammed's blood lust and hatred of Jews. The Children were spared but sold off as slaves. The women were also spared but given to Muslim soldiers as sex slaves. And then Muhammad had all the 700-800 men (basically everyone who exhibited puberty, so mostly 14 and older) decapitated in the Market Place of Medina. It was said the blood of Jews flooded the Market of Medina (Muslims now claim it was a mass suicide, you know since beheading is a common suicide choice). By 627 AD Mohammed had essentially destroyed or enslaved the entire population of Jews of Khaybar (now Medina).

After his death in 637 AD all the surviving Jews were expelled to Mesopotamia, which then the Muslims again invaded, and it became Iraq, and newly created Islamic Jihadis, expelled the Jews once again. The point is NONE OF THE LAND WAS MUSLIM, IT IS ALL OCCUPIED TERRITORY. FROM THE MANY CULTURES ISLAM DESTROYED IN THE NAME OF MUHAMMAD AND THEIR RELIGION. I say give it all back. Stop the spread of this malignancy. And push this crew back to the only ground they can claim, which was the area around a cave near Mecca that Mohammed crawled out of. By the way how did Mecca, the place Mohammad was first expelled, become Islam's most Holy site? Interesting question. because none of that region is the property of Islam. By my primary concern is the Jews. The rightful heirs to not only Israel but apparently, Jordan, since at least 624 AD and Khaybar, and Judea, and on and on. Jews were never the occupiers, they were the indigenous, the ones whose land was occupied.

And when they say Jews don't exist, they are European Colonizers, remember and remind them of Islam's perpetual apartheid in the Middle East that expelled Jews (and Christians and Copts), explaining the diaspora -- and how many Jews ended up in Europe and AS THEY OCCUPIED THE JEWISH HOMELAND. While we are at it, tell the Islamist-majority body of the UN to buzz off. Their phony partitions created this mess, by letting THEIR ANTISEMITISM GUIDE THEIR DECISION TO GIVE AWAY JEWISH LAND TO ARAB OCCUPIERS.